Measures of Beijing Municipality for Implementation of the Law of the People's Republic of China on Prevention and Control of Water Pollution(from government website)
Measures of Beijing Municipality for Implementation of the Law of the People's Republic of China on Prevention and Control of Water Pollution(from government website)
Measures of Beijing Municipality for Implementation of the Law of the People's Republic of China on Prevention and Control of Water Pollution
Beijing People's Congress Bulletin No. 57
May 15, 2002
Chapter I General Provisions
Article 1 These Measures are formulated for the purpose of implementing the Law of the People's Republic of China on Prevention and Control of Water Pollution and in combination with the actual circumstances of this Municipality.
Article 2 These Measures shall apply to prevention and control of pollution of rivers, lakes, canals, reservoirs and other surface water bodies and ground water bodies within the administrative area of this Municipality.
Article 3 People's governments at various levels of this Municipality shall be responsible for the quality of water environment of their respective administrative areas.
People's governments at various levels of this Municipality must incorporate protection of water environment into the national economic and social development plans, rationally design the urban layouts, increase inputs of funds for protection of water environment and take measures to improve the quality of water environment.
Article 4 The municipal administrative department in charge of environmental protection shall exercise unified supervision and management of prevention and control of water pollution in this Municipality. The district or county administrative departments in charge of environmental protection shall exercise unified supervision and management of prevention and control of water pollution in their respective administrative areas.
Relevant administrative departments of development planning, economic, planning, water conservancy, municipal administration, land and housing administration, health, agriculture, public security, industrial and commercial administration, tourism, etc. shall exercise supervision and management of prevention and control of water pollution within their respective duties and responsibilities according to law.
Article 5 People's governments at various levels of this Municipality shall, aiming at the characteristics of the water environment in their respective administrative areas, formulate and carry out economic and technical policies and measures favorable to prevention and control of water pollution.
This Municipality shall encourage the initiating of scientific research, technological development and application concerning prevention and control of water pollution to raise the scientific and technological level in protection of water environment; intensifying the publicity and education in prevention and control of water pollution and supervision via public opinions; disseminating scientific knowledge of prevention and control of water pollution to raise the citizens' awareness of environmental protection.
Article 6 In the work of prevention and control of water pollution in this Municipality, the principle of prevention first and combining prevention with control shall be adhered to.
Units and individuals that discharge pollutants into water environment shall bear the responsibility for clearing up the pollution.
Article 7 All units and individuals must abide by the Law of the People's Republic of China on Prevention and Control of Water Pollution and these Measures, perform their obligations to protect water environment and have the right to exercise supervision over and disclose any acts of polluting and harming water environment.
Chapter II Supervision and Management of Prevention and Control of Water Pollution
Article 8 This Municipality is fixed by the State Council as a key city in prevention and control of water pollution. It shall make the quality of water environment within this administrative area up to the stipulated standards based on the functional demarcation within the prescribed time limit.
Article 9 The municipal people's government shall, in accordance with the Plan for Prevention and Control of Water Pollution in the Haihe River Drainage Basin and the conditions of water environment in this Municipality, define the functional demarcation of water environment and formulate a plan for prevention and control of water pollution in this Municipality.
The district or county people's governments shall formulate plans for prevention and control of water pollution in their respective administrative areas.
Relevant administrative departments of the municipal people's government shall formulate plans for prevention and control of water pollution in the related industries.
Article 10 The relevant departments of the municipal people's government and the district or county people's governments shall, when developing, utilizing and regulating water resources, make overall plans and take all factors into consideration for maintaining proper flows, water levels and natural purification capacity of water bodies.
Article 11 This Municipality shall enforce comprehensive prevention and control of water pollution caused by industrial and agricultural production, daily life and other activities.
Before the quality of water environment is up to the standards, the municipal people's government may take even stricter measures according to law.
Article 12 This Municipality shall, in accordance with the stipulations of the State Council, institute a system for control of total discharge of major pollutants.
The people's governments at various levels of this Municipality shall incorporate the programs and plans for control of total discharge of water pollutants in their respective administrative areas into the national economic and social development plans and organize their implementation.
The municipal and the district or county administrative departments in charge of environmental protection shall be responsible for working out, along with the relevant departments at the same level, programs or plans for control of total discharge of water pollutants in their respective administrative areas, define areas for total amount control, categories of water pollutants and their total amount of discharge, amount of discharge to be reduced and the time limit for the reduction. Pollutant discharge permits or temporary pollutant discharge permits shall be issued to the pollutant discharging units that conform to the requirements.
The units whose total discharge is controlled shall fulfill the task of water pollutant reduction as required.
Article 13 New construction projects and expansion or reconstruction projects that directly or indirectly discharge pollutants into water bodies must be subject to relevant provisions of the State and this Municipality governing environmental protection for construction projects.
The environmental impact statements (forms) of construction projects must make assessments on water pollution hazards and impacts on the ecological environment the construction projects are likely to produce and prescribe prevention and control measures, and be subject to examination and approval by the administrative department in charge of environmental protection in accordance with the stipulated procedure.
Facilities for prevention and control of water pollution for a construction project must be designed, built and put to use simultaneously with the main part of the project.
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